Making meals interesting for children weaving in the healthy ingredients albeit in a delicious way could help the little ones get the required nutrients. Mixed vegetable parathas or tikkis, paneer rolls, mixed fruit desserts are some of the ways of making 'healthy' appealing to children. Since the food preferences of children are set quite early in their life, it is the right time for parents to focus on developing a taste of healthy foods for their kids. Sometimes wrong food habits during early years can carry on till adulthood and beyond.
Gurpreet Kaur, Senior Clinical Nutritionist, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals, Chandigarh says the reason that happens is because initially parents feed better-tasting foods to children which are not necessarily healthy, thinking they would be able to modify their food habits later on. The 'later on' however never comes and these habits stay.